Creativity is the fastest growing business in the world. Companies are hungry for people with ideas - and more and more of us want to make, buy, sell and share creative products. But how do you turn creativity into money? This book shows what creativity is, how it thrives and how it is changing in the digital age.

Contains chapters on intuitive cognition, complexity, emotion, team innovation, development and well-being. This textbook includes seminal papers on creativity, perception, style, culture and sustainable development. It gives an overview of the topics discussed whilst explaining their practical implications.

This textbook reveals the importance of creativity and innovation in today's organizations. It provides students with the principles and practices entailed in the new form of management associated with creative and innovative organizations. The text introduces the creative approaches in management, revealing the role and impact of cognition, intuition and perception. Jane Henry differentiates between a variety of personal styles and shows their implications for creativity, problem solving, communication, decision making and role preference. Students using this textbook will understand the impact of cultural values and certain historical habits of thought on management and organization, and identify the main ways in which management can enable organizations to be more sustainable and responsible. The text includes student activities, illustrative cartoons, boxed examples and recommended readings. This book is a key course text of The Open University Business School MBA course Creativity, Innovation and Change.

39 essential rules to delivering impeccable service - from the man who ran Disneyworld.

How technologies of organization are redrawing the lines of class struggle

Over the past seven years, she found that leaders in organisations ranging from small entrepreneurial start-ups and family-owned businesses to non-profits, civic organisations and Fortune 50 companies, are asking the same questions: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders?

Based on research from several fields, it provides useful reading and essential knowledge for scholars and students throughout the social sciences and for everyone who wants to understand their own decisions and those of others.

Developing Employability is an outstanding guide to the skills involved in job-hunting and entering the workplace. Straightforward, practical, and engaging, it allows students to develop, experience, and refine the skills and techniques that will help them stand out from the crowd as they look forward to their future career.

In a recent series of ground-breaking psychological experiments, volunteers were shown a 30-second film of some people playing basketball and told to count the number of passes made with the ball. After just a few seconds, a man dressed as a gorilla slowly walked into frame, beat his chest at the camera, and sauntered off.

Presents practical tools and strategies your company can use to help you drastically increase productivity and earning power. This book shows how you can question your strategies, create new markets, give your products a radical makeover, and invent innovative new price and profit models to give you a competitive advantage over your rivals.

A classic since its first appearance in the 1980s, this comprehensive reference continues to be THE history of the spread of new ideas, for academics and professionals alike.

Learn to face the chaos in the new era of disruption with this exhilarating and at times provocative account of digital transformation.

Innovation in information and production technologies is generating both benefits and disruption, rapidly altering how firms and markets perform at a basic level. Digital DNA is an engaging examination of the opportunities, challenges, and ways that countries and the international community can govern developments for broad benefit.

A New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Stoic sensation Ryan Holiday

Douglas McGregor's 1960 book is a vital study of the conditions that make employment satisfying and meaningful. Traditionally, managers assumed people were lazy and would not work unless strictly controlled. McGregor believed this was a faulty view of human nature.

Provides students with an understanding of the dynamics of E-Business. This title offers coverage of emerging online business strategies and technologies in the electronic commerce marketplace. It provides coverage of e-commerce growth in China and the developing world, social media and online marketing strategies, and more.

This text draws together a wide range of conceptual models & frameworks to provide a coherent insight into modern-day e-business from a management perspective. Packed with contemporary international examples and case studies including Ebay, Skype and Googlewhacking, it is supported by an extensive online package with Author Blog.

This book adopts a holistic view to assess the impact of market socialism upon evolving economic enterprises and their ownership forms and provides a comparative perspective on organizational development and management systems.

The story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it generated billions of dollars in profit.

In this new collection of articles on managing and being managed, Adrian Furnham, author of Bad Apples, offers an engaging and witty look into the world of being an engaging manager. Based on strong research this book offers a substantial introduction to the joy of management.

A handbook for every aspiring business leader, 'Brilliant Checklists for Entrepreneurs' is packed with hundreds of easy-to-follow, detailed lists that tell you everything you need to know - and everything you need to think about - when starting or growing a business.

Covers aspects such as what the non-profits are teaching business and the information that executives need.